Assistant Professor Daniel Croll
Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Plant pathogens are notorious threats to agricultural production. How to manage current diseases on crops and how to successfully predict the risk of future outbreaks remain significant challenges. In our research group, we try to understand evolutionary and ecological processes governing pathogens. For this, we investigate within-species diversity at the phenotypic, genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic level in order to advance our understanding of pathogen emergence. We find that a multitude of different factors act as drivers of pathogens. But we also show how trade-offs can act as brakes by constraining the evolution of individual pathogen traits. Explicitly considering evolutionary processes in pathogens will help to transition to a more sustainable agriculture.
The seminar will be hosted on zoom and the seminar can be accessed via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87810366802
Additionally, the link to the seminar will be posted online on our website (www.weeswageningen.nl) in the week of the seminar. If you experience any problems with accessing the seminar, please contact us at weeswageningen@gmail.com..
WEES background & call for new members
WEES is an initiative of PhD students and postdocs at Wageningen University to organize a continuing series of stimulating seminars on contemporary topics in evolution and ecology. For this series we invite researchers from all over the world who have leading roles in their field. We aim to bring together different groups at Wageningen University using a variety of systems, but with a common interest in evolutionary and ecological questions. WEES is funded by graduate schools PE&RC, WIMEK, EPS, VLAG, and WIAS.
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